John Mcglaughlin Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

As a consultant, Mr McGlaughlin provided MS Excel Visual Basic Scripts to optimize productivity for a team of 2 leads and 13 Reprice Specialist. The project consisted of repricing nearly 1900 customer contracts for 20,000 legacy data ports. The script aggregated the daily progress of previous days Reprice Specialist and generated a spreadsheet used to generate the price change on signed contracts. Contracts needed to be completed within 6 weeks. Between 6 – 8 man hours were saved daily by the… Show more As a consultant, Mr McGlaughlin provided MS Excel Visual Basic Scripts to optimize productivity for a team of 2 leads and 13 Reprice Specialist. The project consisted of repricing nearly 1900 customer contracts for 20,000 legacy data ports. The script aggregated the daily progress of previous days Reprice Specialist and generated a spreadsheet used to generate the price change on signed contracts. Contracts needed to be completed within 6 weeks. Between 6 – 8 man hours were saved daily by the 2 leads and program manager. Show less

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

As a Senior Consultant, for an innovation submital project, Mr. McGlaughlin’s team expanded the capabilities of the request ticketing system to provide a front-door capability to submit Innovations to a specialized JIRA Project. Success of this adaptation was quickly recognized and recognized and adapted by additional Business Units providing customization templates based on specific team needs.Mr. McGlaughlin designed and implemented a duplicate stage environment to emulate production… Show more As a Senior Consultant, for an innovation submital project, Mr. McGlaughlin’s team expanded the capabilities of the request ticketing system to provide a front-door capability to submit Innovations to a specialized JIRA Project. Success of this adaptation was quickly recognized and recognized and adapted by additional Business Units providing customization templates based on specific team needs.Mr. McGlaughlin designed and implemented a duplicate stage environment to emulate production environment for the implementation of database migration and Disaster Recovery scenarios for JIRA and Ticketing System High Availability, redundancy and continuous deployment without downtime. Show less

Durham Nc

As a Senior Consultant, Mr. McGlaughlin acted as Team Lead and Consultant to 7 development and support personnel in the migration of Global Customer Services BizOps projects from corporate JIRA servers to Global Customer Services maintained servers. Mr. McGlaughlin provided technical expertise in support of the DevOps infrastructure for RHEL 7, JIRA, Apache, Tomcat, and the setup of Perl, Node, and JavaScript development environment. Mr. McGlaughlin provided architecture design of an… Show more As a Senior Consultant, Mr. McGlaughlin acted as Team Lead and Consultant to 7 development and support personnel in the migration of Global Customer Services BizOps projects from corporate JIRA servers to Global Customer Services maintained servers. Mr. McGlaughlin provided technical expertise in support of the DevOps infrastructure for RHEL 7, JIRA, Apache, Tomcat, and the setup of Perl, Node, and JavaScript development environment. Mr. McGlaughlin provided architecture design of an EmberJS front end trouble ticket UI in support of over 1500 products, applications and platform scripts generating over 3000 tickets per week. The success of Mr. McGlaughlin’s team generated interest from Business Units to expand the application to include entry of Innovations for new products and productivity enhancements.Mr. McGlaughlin provided technical support to multiple organizations in US, Europe, and India. Show less

Cisco, Inc. Smart Web Technologies Group, Rtp, Nc

• Smart Web Technologies Group aggregates multiple backend services into a common one stop service portal enhancing User Experience and productivity by allowing customers to acquire their desired information without having to login to many different web pages. • Assumed responsibility as Test Lead for Development and execution of Application Test Plans for User Interface, User Experience; database evaluation of injection vulnerabilities, element creation, modification and deletion; data… Show more • Smart Web Technologies Group aggregates multiple backend services into a common one stop service portal enhancing User Experience and productivity by allowing customers to acquire their desired information without having to login to many different web pages. • Assumed responsibility as Test Lead for Development and execution of Application Test Plans for User Interface, User Experience; database evaluation of injection vulnerabilities, element creation, modification and deletion; data filter, sorting and collection tests; data import and report exporting; and user configured dynamic text highlighting for:•• CWAY Serial Number Checker – Verified the aggregation of product information e.g. Lifecycle, Contract, Warranty, Product Alerts and installation location. Tested boundary scenarios •• CWAY ASA CLI Analyzer – a Chromium Standalone Application for in lab proxy or remote use. Verified that application allows customers to enter and organize 1000’s of devices and provides custom SSH or Telnet console connections • Co-Executed testing of CWAY “My Devices” web tool that lets customers build and manage a persistent list of the Cisco products. Verify unified information referencse for up to 5000 devices• Developed and implemented Restful API test automation for backend services using Junit and Frisby.js.• Successfully combined diplomacy and commitment to User Experience with Business Team and Developers; thus providing realistic expectations of feature functional requirements. Coordinated Test Plans and scheduling with Lead Developers to meet incremental release deliverables. • Coordinated with India Team to hand of test suites and provide daily product builds for their testing.• Supervised and code reviewed Protractor Automation of My Device and Serial Number Checker.• Environment: Web, Chromium, Node.js, Frisby.js, Stackato• Tools: Jira, Bamboo, GitHub/Git, Junit Rest Assured, WebStorm, Eclipse, Confluence Wiki Show less

Cisco Inc., Intellectual Properties, Research Triangle Park, Nc

• Supported Accelerated Innovation Idea Web Tool which provides a method for employees to submit product enhancement ideas to committees for project funding. The tool provides authors data entry forms to submit ideas to appropriate committees for review. Committees are provided with review process tracking for idea acceptance, clarification, rejection or committee transfer. An Administration interface is provided for new committee addition, configuration, and suspension.• Provided Perl… Show more • Supported Accelerated Innovation Idea Web Tool which provides a method for employees to submit product enhancement ideas to committees for project funding. The tool provides authors data entry forms to submit ideas to appropriate committees for review. Committees are provided with review process tracking for idea acceptance, clarification, rejection or committee transfer. An Administration interface is provided for new committee addition, configuration, and suspension.• Provided Perl enhancements and refactoring of Cisco Patents On Line (CPOL) portal application subset to create the Innovation Portal. • Verify that Tool provides desired submittal statistics, idea review status, state management, report generation, google search functionality, Administrative services for state changes, manual document edits, database manipulation and committee administration. Provide application bug support and Oracle query verification.• Environment: Web, Apache, RHEL Linux, Oracle• Tools: Eclipse EPIC Perl plugin, HTML Template, Perl, JavaScript, Oracle SQL Developer, CVS, MS Office Show less

Cisco Systems, Rtp, Nc

• Responsible for migrating new acquisitions source code to corporate data centers providing SVN updates to obsolete technologies.• Provide customer support for creation of new corporate ACL managed SVN and Git Repositories.• Perl automation of SVN creation/migration processes, ACL conversion and integration scripts.• Junit Test development for backend controller services, which provide customers ability to self-manage corporate SVN repositories.• Environment: RHEL Linux… Show more • Responsible for migrating new acquisitions source code to corporate data centers providing SVN updates to obsolete technologies.• Provide customer support for creation of new corporate ACL managed SVN and Git Repositories.• Perl automation of SVN creation/migration processes, ACL conversion and integration scripts.• Junit Test development for backend controller services, which provide customers ability to self-manage corporate SVN repositories.• Environment: RHEL Linux, Web• Tools: Eclipse EPIC Perl Plugin, Apache ACL, CVS, SVN, Git, EclEmma, Confluence Wiki, MS Office 2010 Show less

Altamonte Springs, Florida

Held 3 roles simultaneously: Co-founder, Director of Engineering • Provide leadership for the selection of trade software platforms, Web site hosting, daily live interactive webinars and ability to archive and replay webinars in HD. Develop, publish and train proprietary trading strategies using financial technical Indicators to maximize Stock Option and FOREX trade probability. • Trade Strategy Education, Daily training Webinars, quarterly… Show more Held 3 roles simultaneously: Co-founder, Director of Engineering • Provide leadership for the selection of trade software platforms, Web site hosting, daily live interactive webinars and ability to archive and replay webinars in HD. Develop, publish and train proprietary trading strategies using financial technical Indicators to maximize Stock Option and FOREX trade probability. • Trade Strategy Education, Daily training Webinars, quarterly 3 day and 7 day seminars.• FOREX Account Manager Multi-million dollar FOREX accounts• Selection of financial Trading platforms and Hosting Services.• Environment: Web, Windows 7• Tools: Citrx GotoWebinar, GotoAssist, Office 2010MetaTrader Programmer• Design, develop and package custom technical indicators for proprietary trade strategies, implemented automatic updates• Design, develop and test Automated FOREX trade execution robots. Unlike competitors, automation is dynamically tweaked for changing markets assuring that performance is maintained and not degraded over time.• Design and develop proprietary trade controller which responds to customer client HTTP requests to execute a trade. NGiNX selected for ability to services 1000’s of requests. • Environment: Windows 7, Windows Server, Linux, NGiNX • Tools: MT4 IDE, HTTP, SSH, Terminal, Emacs, VI, CPanel Web Developer/Administrator• Design, develop and implement corporate web site to promote sales and offerings. Web site offered both public facing blog on current trades and trading best practices. Secure site for customers offered HTML 5 video of archived webinars, proprietary trade strategy implementation and status of current live trades performed in webinars. • Environment: Windows 7, Windows Server, Linux• Tools: Webuilder 2010/2012 PHP, TightVNC Show less

Rtp, Nc

• Major Contributor to NSSTG Emerging Automation Technologies (NEAT) – co-developed an automation test framework pseudo language which optimizes test case automation production within the CAST infrastructure. The framework increased test automation productivity by 30% and greatly reduced scripting bugs by implementing common engines for configuration, data extraction and reporting.• Gathered and evaluated test automation requirements from NSSTG/NSITE test teams, then provided best practice… Show more • Major Contributor to NSSTG Emerging Automation Technologies (NEAT) – co-developed an automation test framework pseudo language which optimizes test case automation production within the CAST infrastructure. The framework increased test automation productivity by 30% and greatly reduced scripting bugs by implementing common engines for configuration, data extraction and reporting.• Gathered and evaluated test automation requirements from NSSTG/NSITE test teams, then provided best practice requirements for common test automation development across NSSTG/NSITE • Identified and analyzed cross team tools which fulfilled requirements; develop or harden common tools across NSITE/NSSTG test teams • Implement and maintain NSSTG/NSITE CAST infrastructure providing common automation development environment for Unix / Linux – provided ant build release and SVN deployment process.• Environment: Windows XP, RHEL Linux, NEAT, CAST, Cisco Automated Test System, Cisco IOS• Tools: XoTcl, Ant, Eclipse DLTK, SVN, MS Project, MS Office Show less

Rtp, Nc

• Leverage Perl Parse::RecDescent into CAST Framework to extract test data from test output. Designed Rule based targeted data extraction from IOS command output. Rules are shared across Engineering Test through CAST infrastructure. Rule Templates are designed to be easily extended to meet future needs completely transparent to current install base.• Co-architect Test Stream Application (tsApp) – next generation of HLTAPP. Integrate 5 years of development and provides a true High Level… Show more • Leverage Perl Parse::RecDescent into CAST Framework to extract test data from test output. Designed Rule based targeted data extraction from IOS command output. Rules are shared across Engineering Test through CAST infrastructure. Rule Templates are designed to be easily extended to meet future needs completely transparent to current install base.• Co-architect Test Stream Application (tsApp) – next generation of HLTAPP. Integrate 5 years of development and provides a true High Level Tools API hltapi allowing the same XoTcl script to selectively configure and control third party data generators Agilent, Cisco PaGenT, Adtech, Spirent Test Center and IXIA. • Mentor – NSITE India team, provided TOI tutorials and Webinars on CAST automation infrastructure, set and monitor initial team goals.• Project Manager to 3rd party firm Xored Software to produce XoTcl IDE for Eclipse to create an open source Object Oriented Tcl IDE alternative to ActiveState Komodo. The XoTcl IDE became prototype for Eclipse Dynamic Languages Toolkit DLTK plugin.• Environment: Windows XP RHEL Linux, Cisco Automated Test System, Cisco IOS• Tools: XoTcl, Ant, Eclipse DLTK, MS Project, MS Office Show less

Rtp, Nc

• Team member of test automation steering committees: System Test Automation Recommendations (STAR), Common Automation System/Solution Test (CAST), Test Automation Work Group (TAWG).• Cisco Test Design Training Project provide details and review Cisco specific test automation training course developed by third party training firm• Architect High Level Tools Application (HLTAPP) – Implementation of a common configuration API for Agilent, Spirent, IXIA and Adtech Data Generators… Show more • Team member of test automation steering committees: System Test Automation Recommendations (STAR), Common Automation System/Solution Test (CAST), Test Automation Work Group (TAWG).• Cisco Test Design Training Project provide details and review Cisco specific test automation training course developed by third party training firm• Architect High Level Tools Application (HLTAPP) – Implementation of a common configuration API for Agilent, Spirent, IXIA and Adtech Data Generators • Designed common configuration spread sheet to specify parameters for generating RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, eBGP and VLAN data flows mapped to thousands of simultaneous end to end stress, functional, and system test cases.• Common API allows automation to be written to the test case and shared across business units without the requirement of additional $100K - $250K data generator reinvestment.• Process Optimization – Created web application that maps data flows to thousands of simultaneous test cases for System under Test. The resultant web table shows end to end flows as Pass Fail and Compromised with filter and sort capabilities by area, protocol, device, status, regular expression.• PHP Development – Implement Syslog-ng with MySQL to filter on router, area, health etc. of Lab equipment.• Environment: Windows XP, RHEL Linux, Cisco Automated Test System, Cisco IOS• Tools: Tcl, Emacs, PHP, MS Office Show less

Chelmsford/Boxboro, Ma

• Lead Test Engineer – Label Switch Controller (LSC). Develop Detailed Test Plans and Automated test beds for MGX, BPX, LS1010 ATM switches and IOS ATM Routers. • Represented Cisco LC-ATM MPLS technology at University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory International Consortium.• Lead Test Engineer – Develop Detailed white box test plans, black box Integration and System Test Plans. Automated test beds for MPLS and MPLS Label Switch Controller (LSC). • Tag-switching and… Show more • Lead Test Engineer – Label Switch Controller (LSC). Develop Detailed Test Plans and Automated test beds for MGX, BPX, LS1010 ATM switches and IOS ATM Routers. • Represented Cisco LC-ATM MPLS technology at University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory International Consortium.• Lead Test Engineer – Develop Detailed white box test plans, black box Integration and System Test Plans. Automated test beds for MPLS and MPLS Label Switch Controller (LSC). • Tag-switching and MPLS Protocol Test Engineer – Develop and Implement Detailed Test Plans select and automate test cases for functional, integration, system test beds• Continued Lab Administration responsibilities• Environment: Solaris, TCL, Windows, Cisco IOS, ATM, Ethernet, BPX, MGX, LS1010• Tools: Emacs, VNC, TightVNC, Framemaker, Cisco Automated Test System Show less

Chelmsford/Boxboro, Ma

• Co-Architect General Purpose Conformance Tester GPCT, a data network protocol conformance test system to implement and test tag-switching/MPLS protocol messages prior to commercial availability of third party test equipment. Awarded Patent 6,373,822.• Building on the Golden Testbed Methodology co-architected tag-driver execution engine patent further developed into “Metal” Release Operations and the Automated Regression Factory.• Lab Administer – Equipment procurement, testbed… Show more • Co-Architect General Purpose Conformance Tester GPCT, a data network protocol conformance test system to implement and test tag-switching/MPLS protocol messages prior to commercial availability of third party test equipment. Awarded Patent 6,373,822.• Building on the Golden Testbed Methodology co-architected tag-driver execution engine patent further developed into “Metal” Release Operations and the Automated Regression Factory.• Lab Administer – Equipment procurement, testbed construction• Environment: Tcl, Solaris Unix, Windows, • Tools: Framemaker, Cisco Automated Test System, Emacs, Show less

Chelmsford/Boxboro, Ma

• Co-Architect the Golden Testbed methodology for continuous integration of LS1010 Feature set. Developed automated testbed reservation software which schedules developer code to load, execute and report results autonomously, accelerating time to market.• Test Engineer – LS-1010 Develop and Implement Detailed System Test Plans, Implement System Test Automation.• Lab Administration – Performed LS-1010 project equipment procurement, testbed construction. • Mentor – Developed training… Show more • Co-Architect the Golden Testbed methodology for continuous integration of LS1010 Feature set. Developed automated testbed reservation software which schedules developer code to load, execute and report results autonomously, accelerating time to market.• Test Engineer – LS-1010 Develop and Implement Detailed System Test Plans, Implement System Test Automation.• Lab Administration – Performed LS-1010 project equipment procurement, testbed construction. • Mentor – Developed training materials to accelerate new hire familiarity with test automation best practices.• Environment: Tcl, Solaris Unix, Cisco IOS, ATM Ethernet• Tools: Framemaker, Cisco Automated Test System, Emacs Show less

San Jose, Ca

• Develop ATM SNMP verification tests for MGX AXIS expansion cabinet to flagship BPX Backbone ATM switch..• Environment: Solaris Unix• Tools: Interleaf, Framemaker, Emacs

Canton, Ma

• Wrote ATM Unit test and Integration test plans. Implemented manual testing.• Performed End to End manual System Test CAPE WLAN switch Project. • Environment: Apollo Unix• Tools: Interleaf, Emacs

Canton, Ma

• Attained Six-Sigma fault tolerance for the Detailed Design and Implementation of embedded firmware HDLC/T1 translators • Environment: Apollo Unix, Motorola 56000 DSP• Tools: Interleaf, Emacs, Tektronix Digital CPU Profiler

Farmingdale, Nj

• Co-Developed Digital Phone Trainer which won Gold World Didacta Award for educational Trainers. • Developed Robotic environment Trainer firmware to program and synchronize robotic arms, conveyor belts electronic eye triggers for state machine environment control.• Developed firmware for stepper motor drives capable of digital sine, square and triangle waves.• Developed firmware for Digital analyzer for use in vocational school labs.• Wrote 6502 assembler code for various… Show more • Co-Developed Digital Phone Trainer which won Gold World Didacta Award for educational Trainers. • Developed Robotic environment Trainer firmware to program and synchronize robotic arms, conveyor belts electronic eye triggers for state machine environment control.• Developed firmware for stepper motor drives capable of digital sine, square and triangle waves.• Developed firmware for Digital analyzer for use in vocational school labs.• Wrote 6502 assembler code for various digital equipment, and display panels• Environment: 6502 assembler, emulator trainer, DOS• Tools: Editor, Assembler, CPU emulator trainer Show less

Engineer’S Degree, Biomedical Electrical Engineering

Engineering